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AOL and IMlogic partner: First Certified AOL Instant Messager Partner

Looks like AOL is hedging its bets with its own AIM Enterprise Gateway (licensed from FaceTime) and has announced with great fanfare that it has structured a partnership with IMlogic, annointing IMlogic as the first certified AOL Instant Messenger Partner. According to InfoWorld,

"By using IM Manager, network administrators can manage multiple IM platforms including AOL's AIM and ICQ, Microsoft's MSN Messenger and Exchange 2000 IM, Yahoo's Yahoo Messenger, IBM's Lotus Sametime, and Reuters Messaging.

AOL also has its own network management tool called AIM Enterprise Gateway that is designed for dedicated AIM environments, but Stewart said this product wouldn't suit companies using multiple instant messaging products. As a result, AOL needed a solution that could integrate management of AIM with other IM products."

IMlogic is continuing its meteoric rise as the preeminent technology for instant messaging to "go corporate," providing enterprise scale security, management, and archiving. Most importantly, IMlogic is raidly becoming the de facto interoperabillity gateway technology for the enterprise.



:: Stowe Boyd 6/16/2003 01:56:32 PM [link] ::
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Yahoo and Webex: Countering Microsoft

I read at CNET that Yahoo and Webex are crafting an alliance, trying to counter the Microsoft Placeware threat. Steve Boom was evasive on the status of enterprise Yahoo Messenger:

"Yahoo would not give any indication of how well Yahoo Messenger Enterprise Edition is selling, nor would it talk about future product refinements. For now, the product is taking incremental steps to address current market demands.

"What we've clearly been hearing in the marketplace is to evolve it from text messaging, but to include real-time sharing and messaging," Steve Boom, senior vice president of Yahoo Enterprise Solutions, said in an interview."

I have always been surprised that Yahoo hasn't exploited the features of its service that are potentially very attractive to corporate customers, particularly IMvironments, which are HTML backdrops to IM sessions. Thes ecould be used as mini-portals for all sorts of business interactions, like transactions, CRM, or collaboration.

Oh well. No one ever listens to me anyway.

:: Stowe Boyd 6/16/2003 01:31:34 PM [link] ::
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Trepia: Geographic Proximity and Socializing

I see that Trepia has announced a new chat tool (as if we needed that) with the use of proximity information garnered from the network.

Whether it's on campus, at work, or at a conference, discover a world of people just around the corner!

The tool apparently builds the buddy list automatically, based on geographic proximity.

Reminds me of the automatic generation of online communities by Blueair Networks based on "relevance" -- and proximity is one aspect of relevance.

Thanks to Clay Shirky at Many-to-Many for the pointer.

:: Stowe Boyd 6/3/2003 04:01:21 PM [link] ::
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